The Tutorial has the example for mapping Java date to the database column using timestamp type. A string received from HTML is converted to dd//mm/yyyy.

Is it possible to specify the conversion format as /mm/dd/yyyy

Hi,

This is noway a problem of hibernate.

Ok, Anyway this will work for you

Your date is

java.util.Date date = "12/12/2005" // format "dd/MM/yyyy"

Use the below Class to convert the format which you want

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");

sdf.parse(date); // will give you the format in which you need.

You can format to whatever format you need

Agree with above poster. More detailed answer is that the DB and Java represent dates numerically (number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1900 or some such). They are input from the user as strings, and parsed into this internal numeric format, then they are rendered on the GUI as strings again, using the SimpleDateFormat.